Delegates from 120 countries attend 6^th Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit-2013

“VGGSI emerges as incubator of innovators and entrepreneurship and not just a global convergence of investors’ destination”

“Convergence of Scale-Skill-Speed as 3 pillars of development”

“Gujarat maintains its high growth rate despite global recession”

– Narendra Modi

Gandhinagar,(Gujarat-India) Friday: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said that the Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit (VGGIS) should send a strong and positive message of converting global challenges of the 21^st Century into opportunities for change and forging partnership between knowledge and technology. 

Inaugurating the mega event to a grand spectacle at the majestic Mahatma Mandir premises here, he said the biennial event has over years emerged as an incubator of innovators and entrepreneurship, and not just a convergence of investors’ destination. It served as a model of development and human welfare for the policy makers. The event demonstrated Gujarat’s capacity to convert dreams for global development into reality.

The sixth version of Gujarat Government’s flagship mega event is being attended by top functionaries of governments, captains of industries and investors, management experts, dignitaries and delegates from 120 countries.

Extending a warm welcome to all, Mr. Modi said that Gujarat’s initiative in staging this global event should bring the world closer, encouraging collective wisdom and cross-cultural partnership for a brighter future of the mankind.

“There was a time when Gujarati people used to go abroad and make the foreign land their home. Now, in 21st century, it is Gujarat’s endeavor to create such an atmosphere that entire world come here to make this land their home”, the Chief Minister said.

He said that the ideology of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (The world is a family) is coming true in Gujarat as the participants from all over the world have converged in the summit and that too when the state is celebrating Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary. 

In a short span of merely a decade the Global Summit of Gujarat has taken a shape of a global event. The Japan and Canada have become country partners and the many developed countries have given a new height and repute to this summit by participating in it. India’s biggest global trade show, spreading over in one lakh square meter of area, has been the major attraction that is showcasing the products from around the world, he said. 

“Today when all parts of the world are reeling under adverse effects of global slowdown, Gujarat has animated to spread a positive image to the world economy through the medium of global summit. The inherent entrepreneurial spirit of Gujarat coupled with the state government’s proactive good-governance policies have a proven record of giving results”, said the Chief Minister.

Mr.Modi said that his government is committed to making available the world-class infrastructural facilities in the state. The state has undertaken constructing of world-class investment region and smart cities. Gujarat has come up with big-scale projects in all the sectors such as ports, roads, broadband connectivity, rail, logistics, communication network, transport, health, education and tourism.

Terming the ‘Scale, Skill and Speed’ as the three pillars which are required for the development of modern world Mr.Modi said, “We should collectively strive to build a beautiful world for the future generations using these three pillars.”  

“History teaches that the economies based on exploitation of a group of people never succeed. Instead we need to aim for a growth which is a result of participation from the deprived classes and the result of intelligent use of natural resources. This summit will show a way of creating exploitation-less economy”, he said.

Along with a natural advantage of its geographical location, Gujarat has been successful in marking its name on the world map through its proactive policies, world-class infrastructural policies and usage of latest technology. Gujarat has raised itself beyond the limits of development, he said.

Mr.Modi said that in the coming years, Gujarat desires to widen greatly the scale of small industries and manufacturing sector. “We are also equipping the youths with skills essential in 21st century. Gujarat will prove to be a fertile land for all those who want to settle here in the want of fulfilling their development dreams”, said the Chief Minister.  

Earlier in the morning, the Chief Minister inaugurated an exhibition on the life and times of Man of the Millennium Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, titled ‘Gandhi to Mahatma’ ‘My Life is My Message’ at the venue of the global meet.